background traumatic brain injury (tbi) is an important public health problem throughout the world. objectives the aim of this study was to assess repeated glasgow coma scale (gcs) scores in predicting the severity of tbi and patients’ survival. patients and methods in this longitudinal study used a total sample of 239 patients, all of whom were hospitalized with traumatic brain injuries. subje...

background traumatic brain injury (tbi) is an important public health problem throughout the world. objective this study assesses repeated glasgow coma scale (gcs) scores to predict the severity of tbi and survival of the patients. materials and methods a sample of 239 patients who were hospitalized with traumatic brain injury was selected by random sampling from icu wards at shahid beheshti ho...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background : traumatic brain injury (tbi) is known as one of the most important causes of mortality in middle-aged population. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of gabapentin in improvement of consciousness level in these patients. methods : this randomized clinical trial was performed in march 2008 to sept...

background cerebral state index (csi) is derived from electroencephalogram (eeg) and is used for monitoring the level of consciousness during anesthesia. this study was designed to investigate the accuracy of glasgow coma scale (gcs) and csi as a predictor of in-hospital mortality in patients with trauma brain injury (tbi). objective to compare the predictive value of gcs and csi for predicting...

injuries, especially traffic accidents are so important causes of death, disability, hospital expenses, economic damages to the society which world health organization selected them as the main subjects for investigation and research. we have done an epidemiologic study about trauma in guilan, a province in north of iran. this is   a descriptive study carried out on patients with traumatic inju...

conclusions with regards to the predictive strength of the combination of gcs and iss, a predictive system for analyzing the clinical outcome may be provided. results 15496 traumatic patients referred to the hospital and traumatic deaths occurred in 289 patients. blunt trauma accounted for 286 (99%) of death and penetrating trauma for only 1%. our findings concerning the injury pattern, correla...

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OBJECTIVE In bacterial meningitis, a decreased level of consciousness is predictive for unfavorable outcome, but the clinical features and outcome in patients presenting with a minimal score on the Glasgow Coma Scale are unknown. METHODS We assessed the incidence, clinical characteristics, and outcome of patients with bacterial meningitis presenting with a minimal score on the Glasgow Coma Sc...

background variables derived from electroencephalogram like cerebral state index (csi) have been used to monitor the anesthesia depth during general anesthesia. observed evidences show such variables have also been used as a detector of brain death or outcome predictor in traumatic brain-injured (tbi) patients. objectives the current study was designed to determine the correlation between glasg...

Since the Glasgow Coma Scale was introduced in 1974,(1) it has become the most common method of describing a patient's level of consciousness. However, despite its almost universal use, there remain a number of misunderstandings, particularly regarding the appropriate situations in which to use the Glasgow Coma Score rather than the Scale, and also in the correct way to elicit and record the mo...